“.....there's a stinking huge difference between influence and the authority you get with a title. Any dolt can stumble into a title.....Lots of people with big-sounding titles have people under them listening only because they have to.”
“The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is third.”
“Of all the titles that I've been privileged to have, the title of 'dad' has always been the best.”
“Someone who spoke English had been listening to his speeches of promised freedom and would have realized they were the drunken lies of men who have titles of power but no authority to exercise it.”
“Children are not guaranteed the luxuries of family, Ms. Wells," he said. "If people are unable to exist within the parameters that have been created for them, they lose any claim to titles like son and daughter.”
“Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.”